Posted 03 August 2009

This Week On The SingStore – 6 August 2009

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This week is quite a big one and if you’ve been following my colleague Carly’s post on here over the last week, you’ll know why. We’ve teamed up with Universal Music recently which means more music, more artists and more SingStar fun for you!

I also hope you enjoyed the Jackson 5‘s ‘I Want You Back’ which we managed to sneak into the last update?

Take your pick from the full tracklisting below but personally, I’ll be getting stuck in with a bit of Girls Aloud and ‘Love Machine’, The Killers‘ ‘Somebody Told Me’ and if I’m feeling really brave, ‘Ace Of Spaces’ by Mötorhead‘ Oh, and Tiffany, Nirvana, Elton John and Patsy Cline, of course. Weird mix you say? Well, I like some variety, me.

Also, German language singers can party with Almklausi and ‘Ich Vermiss Dich (Wie Die Hölle)’ plus there’s Gerard Joling with ‘Maak Me Gek’ in Dutch and two Spanish tracks by Melocos.

Last but not least we have three excellent SongPacks on offer: SingStar Sizzlers, perfect for any summertime party, Vagrant Records and the long-awaited Roxette Rocks!

Hope you like the update! See you next week with July’s Top 20 download chart. Any bets on who’ll make it to the top this time?

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This is usually the part where I’d say what a great update (what a great update!), but I’ve actually got something to pass onto you on behalf of the SingStar community. Ever since the Universal/SingStar agreement was announced, we’ve been working on a wishlist of songs we’d love to see on the SingStore from Universal artists. There was a huge response from the community, with the final wishlist containing over 400 songs.

I know what you’re about to say… you can’t make any promises, and many of these songs are already on your internal wishlist. We recognise that you can’t license every song we want, and even the ones that you _can_ license will take time. But hopefully this wishlist will reinforce what you already think we want, and maybe even give the team some new ideas.

So yeah. We’d be grateful if you could pass this on to the appropriate people for us, and hopefully down the line we’ll see some of these tracks being announced here on the blog. :D

This is usually the part where I’d say what a great update (what a great update!), but I’ve actually got something to pass onto you on behalf of the SingStar community. Ever since the Universal/SingStar agreement was announced, we’ve been working on a wishlist of songs we’d love to see on the SingStore from Universal artists. There was a huge response from the community, with the final wishlist containing over 400 songs.

I know what you’re about to say… you can’t make any promises, and many of these songs are already on your internal wishlist. We recognise that you can’t license every song we want, and even the ones that you _can_ license will take time. But hopefully this wishlist will reinforce what you already think we want, and maybe even give the team some new ideas.

So yeah. We’d be grateful if you could pass this on to the appropriate people for us, and hopefully down the line we’ll see some of these tracks being announced here on the blog. :D

Thanks for the list – I have been following its creation closely :) – and yes, you’re right, a lot is on our list and we want to see these songs up there as much as you guys.

And here’s the BUT – like all things this takes time so we’re releasing things we can and have ready now and at the same time working on all the other great songs so they can hopefully be released soon. I really hope you’ll see things you all want on the SingStore soon enough.

It’s very often when I try to view other peoples photos and videos that it “looses connection”.It’s really annoying. Anyone else having this problem?

Another feature I’d like is a symbol of the tunes in the store that are already on the Singstar disks, so I don’t purchase

songs I already own. (And like other people said, a feature to import the discs to the HD so I don’t have to swap disc all

the time.)

I’d also like to see these tunes getting into the store:La Isla Bonita – MadonnaSmooth Criminal – Michael JacksonBeat It – Michael JacksonMr. Bassman – Johnny Cymbal (Old hit from the 60’s)The One I Love – R.E.M.Shiny Happy People – R.E.M.The Never Ending Story – Limahl

Also some more Swedish songs would be great, haven’t been much lately.A group called “Gyllene Tider” (With Per Gessle from Roxette) would be highly appreciated. :)

It’s very often when I try to view other peoples photos and videos that it “looses connection”.It’s really annoying. Anyone else having this problem?

Another feature I’d like is a symbol of the tunes in the store that are already on the Singstar disks, so I don’t purchase

songs I already own. (And like other people said, a feature to import the discs to the HD so I don’t have to swap disc all

the time.)

I’d also like to see these tunes getting into the store:La Isla Bonita – MadonnaSmooth Criminal – Michael JacksonBeat It – Michael JacksonMr. Bassman – Johnny Cymbal (Old hit from the 60’s)The One I Love – R.E.M.Shiny Happy People – R.E.M.The Never Ending Story – Limahl

Also some more Swedish songs would be great, haven’t been much lately.A group called “Gyllene Tider” (With Per Gessle from Roxette) would be highly appreciated. :)

Great upate but the US will be left over this time… How come no Roxette Pack for us? And what about the UMG songs for the US? When are we gonna get it? Please I can’t wait much longer to download these and other songs in the future. Thanks :(

I have just checked the US Blog and 4 of the Roxette songs will make it but no ‘Wish I Could Fly’. I will pass on this one only for this time. Hehehe. But thanks for the reply and hope to see more great songs for the US ;)

Hey — if you’ve been following the wishlist creation closely does that mean you stumbled across my SingStore sales prediction competition? I noticed that line about making bets who’ll come out on top for July. :P

It may be possible someday to release Queen onto the US SingStore but then, there’s a possiblilty that it might never happen, too. I know that’s a very vague answer but that’s all I know at the moment.

On singstar vol.2 you have Eminem – Without Me , looking at the list of artists on universal website Eminem is on there , so is there plans to at least release Without Me into the singstore , im not going to buy vol.2 just for 1 song , i have vol.1 & pop edition plus many downloads , but id just love some Eminem songs please , at least without me , and if you negotiate more then please may we have his latest song ‘Beautiful’

I’m getting rocket man for sure, but nothing else, I think. Nina… you promissed more Paul McCartney some time ago and since you did, there haven’t been any of his songs added to SingStore :PI hope that we’ll see something from him soon.And please, please, any chances of seeing Maroon 5 in two weeks time? :|

Anyway, I hope it’s just the beginning and my yammer is caused by my music taste. I can see rather favorable comments above, so keep going :)

Thanks to the person moderating this blog for removing my completely legitimate post – I’d love to know the reasoning behind that one.

All I was trying to say was that I asked for more rock/metal last time and was told there’d be something along those lines in this update. Instead we get one Nirvana track, a recycled Motorhead one and a bucketful of disappointment.

If you’re not going to put heavier music in, please don’t get our hopes up in future.

“Paul McCartney and the frog Chrocus – We all stand to gether” Is hilarious song.. thank you for it. I and my 6 year old kid (finnish as I) loves to sing it and what the best she learn to sing it in english. But one (or two) request, How about Iceland eurovision song .. was it Johanna – Is it true or something like that.. That is probably fun to sing… Also More Leevi and the leavings songs would be wonderful…

Nina, does this new deal improve our chances of getting rid of the PS2 Singstar discs, as you see we wanna get rid of (you heard right!) the PS2 Discs so we can BUY them again digitally (I know a little bit of a waste of cash! But more cash into the bulging singstar purse means more research and MORE songs!

If you could reply Nina that would be great if not I understand you are very very busy

I loved this update but i have one point that bugs meWhy did we not get the origional clip of the Cher video of “if i could turn back time”. instead we re watching some stills that are shown.The video was great and actually i feel a bit cheated into buying with this onehope to get an honest answer